Music Quotes · Page 378

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

— Dizzy Gillespie

That it might turn into music that would heighten emotion, but not be important in itself.

— Bob Mondello

“Start with your heart, and only good can follow!”

— Ocean

If you see the trend today, people's music preference changes every two years.

— Rahul Vaidya

It's a really good time for California right now in music.

— G-Eazy

My thing is just music; it doesn't really have no box. My thing is just free.

— Skip Marley

I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with.

— Bonnie Raitt

It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.

— Yanni

There's a lot of other artists doing things outside of that depth that I enjoy - that music that I can actually…

— Kendrick Lamar

Maybe my great struggle, and it's probably not anything different from too many other people, but it certainly is what drives the…

— El-P

Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.

— Melanie Fiona

Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' was on constant shuffle throughout my childhood. I remember my dad playing some stellar…

— Daniel Breaker

I'm not a big fan of trying to be a sex symbol or any of that stuff because I really like the…

— Skylar Grey

I thought that I could do some kind of vehicle involving rock musicals and presenting rock and characters and storyline in a…

— David Bowie

I'm born to do music. I'm born to act. I'm born to dance and all of these things, and I will be…

— Lil Mama

Studying James Fauntleroy, I learned it's okay to write a bad song. Just write another one the next day and hope that…

— Syd

“Chords reel and the mind reels, and for all I know The minds of the Gods reel as well -- "For if…

— Tobeimean Peter

The music played most around St. Louis was country-western and swing. Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of the country stuff…

— Chuck Berry

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that…

— Pierre Schaeffer

It's very strange: if you're a philosopher or musician or an artist, people automatically believe you can see the future. Even if…

— Ma Yansong

Avoid negative people. Avoid negative places. Avoid negative movies/musics. Avoid every negative thought that obstructs your optimism. Hope is real, dreams are…

— Terry Mark

Basically, asking me what kind of music I like is like asking what kind of food I like: 'Anything that tastes good,'…

— Mohsin Hamid

We have to make the physical music a little more valuable instead of just having a download link and a bunch of…

— Lupe Fiasco

I want to speak in the tradition of rhythm and blues and soul music, but also push how it's dressed and how…

— Kelela

Music is made from the heart and the mind. It is every emotion a human being can convey.

— Travis Benton

I like big songs that feel quite upbeat, the songs that people love - me singing them, less so.

— Lou Sanders

Growing up in Houston, the music scene is super boring.

— Travis Scott

“But had I accepted the pickle juice, I would be drinking pickle juice right now.”

— Nicki Minaj

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

— Anonymous

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

— Bruce Springsteen

I kind of make music where and when I can, and I guess that's why I collaborate so much.

— Sampha

“Asking to hold a musician’s instrument is roughly similar to asking to kiss a man’s wife.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

I am totally involved with music, but my goal is to do the sports thing.

— Phife Dawg

Without question the most unpopular medium of musical sound in the world.

— Thomas Beecham

The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands.

— Thomas Beecham

I hope somebody does this to all my crap demos when I'm dead, making them into hit songs.

— George Harrison

“Sometimes language can't even read the music of meaning.”

— David Mitchell

Sometimes, you can't seem to find any song on the radio that you like.

— Sondre Lerche

Music is, I think, the best way to... not forget, but to just escape for a moment.

— Hayley Williams

I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.

— Alex Winter